The "mainstream" media may be married to Barack Obama now.

But it may be a short distance between the honeymoon and divorce.

Ask Barbara West -- one of the few journalists out there not in the tank for the Democratic nominee.

The Florida television anchor's station was barred from further Obama campaign interviews after she dared to ask VP candidate Joe Biden some tough questions.

Amazingly, though predictably, most of the media aren't the least bit interested in the response she got from Biden. They're more concerned about her questions. CNN's Soledad O'Brien seemed certain West had an agenda.

She did. It's called real journalism.

West grilled Biden on everything from Obama's connections to ACORN -- the far-left "community organization" that's knee deep in fraudulent registration scandals in more than a dozen states -- to Biden's statement that if elected Obama would be tested by a "generated" international crisis soon after taking office. She even asked how Obama's "spread the wealth around" comment differed from communist founder Karl Marx's plan to redistribute wealth to the underclasses.

Good question! Biden thought it a joke, but for tens of millions of Americans who don't share the mainstream media's politically correct, left-of-center biases, this is no laughing matter. These were highly relevant questions that the Democratic ticket should have been asked months ago.

Yet West is being hounded, criticized and condemned by many of her more prominent colleagues, in both the broadcast and print media. What is it with these people? Have they tasted so much of the Obama-Biden Kool-Aid that they can't see how unprofessional they are in attacking her?

What matters is not the interviewer, but the politician. Biden's answers were dismissive and unresponsive. That's what ought to concern CNN.

The media also ought to consider whether there's a factual basis for West's questions. There is: Obama himself has written, in his memoirs, that his most influential political heroes include the likes of Frank Marshall Davis, a communist, and Saul Alinsky, the Marxist-anarchist who birthed the Chicago community organization that Obama attached himself to in launching his own political career.

The Obama camp is known for attacking and shutting out questioners it doesn't like. It quickly notified West's station, WFTV, that it is henceforth persona non grata. Yet, most of the media's response to what is basically a form of censorship was to be more interested in quizzing the little-known Florida anchorwoman about her politics and questions than in finding out why the Obama campaign was bullying her and her TV station (WFTV) for even asking the questions.

Don't West's critics realize they could be next?

On the heels of the Biden fiasco came release of the 2001 Chicago radio tape wherein Obama lamented that the federal courts let the U.S. Constitution block them from redistributing wealth and being more activist in pursuing the left's political and social justice agendas.

If he has such a dim view of the Constitution, what makes the media think he'll respect the First Amendment?